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Anthony Badon

Metairie, Louisiana

Power is a nearly square painting of a wire hair pick with a Black power fist as handle on a white background.

Power

2024

Starter Pack is a nearly square painting of an orange tin reading “Murray’s Superior Hair Dressing Pomade” with an illustration of two figures on the top, next to a coarse black brush on a light background.

Starter Pack

2022

Something's Are Priceless is a painting of a radiantly smiling Black woman with hair styled up in wide curls. She wears a large bamboo heart hearing hand has one gold tooth.

Something's Are Priceless

2022

Self Portrait 007: Dissolve is a painting of a Black man with his head tipped back and eyes closed, using a wire pick on his full beard.

Self Portrait 007: Dissolve

2022

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About Anthony Badon

Antony Badon gazes at the camera with hand resting on his arm, wearing black frame glasses, black sweater, nose ring and silver chain. He is a Black man with medium dark skin tone, close cropped black hair, and a full black beard.

Anthony Badon, or best known as simply BE3K, is an eclectic artist with a keen eye for detail, color, and composition. Originally from South Mississippi, BE3K has found home in New Orleans since 2018.

Program Participation

Joan Mitchell Center Residency, 2024

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“ I work exclusively in oil paints. My art is influenced by Black culture of the past, present, and ideas of the future—of what could be. All the things that Black people have been taught to suppress, in order to be digestible for others, are the very things I aim to highlight.”

Related Journal Entries

Anthony Badon sits and paints onto a canvas on the wall. He is a Black man with dark skin tone, a black beard and wears a striped knit shirt.

In the Studio: Anthony Badon

“I've always described my art as like a dream. Sometimes things will be finished...

A staggered grid of 37 artworks of diverse aesthetics and media.

Announcing the 2024 Joan Mitchell Center Artists-in-Residence

We are pleased to announce the diverse and distinguished group of artists that w...